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A WARHAMMER 40,000 NOVEL
PATH OF THE WARRIOR
Path of the Eldar - 01
Gav Thorpe
(An Undead Scan v1.0)
For Jes and White Dwarf 127 for starting me on the Path.
It is the 41st millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the
Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the
master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds
by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing
invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion
Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every
day, so that he may never truly die.
Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal
vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the
warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the
Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor’s will. Vast
armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst
his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered
super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard
and countless Planetary Defence Forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and
the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all
their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present
threat from aliens, heretics, mutants—and worse.
To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live
in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of
those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has
been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and
understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no
peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and
the laughter of thirsting gods.
“Life is to us as the Maze of Linnian was to Ulthanesh, its mysterious
corridors leading to wondrous vistas and nightmarish encounters in equal
measure. Each of us must walk the maze alone, treading in the footsteps of
those that came before but also forging new routes through the labyrinth of
existence.
“In times past we were drawn to the darkest secrets and ran wild about
the maze, seeking to experience all that it had to offer. As individuals and as
a civilisation we lost our way and in doing so created the means for our
doom; unfettered exploration leading to the darkness of the Fall.
“In the emptiness that followed, a new way was revealed to us: the
Path. Through the wisdom of the Path we spend our lives exploring the
meaning of existence, moving from one part of the maze to another with
discipline and guidance so that we never become lost again. On the Path we
experience the full potential of love and hate, jog and woe, lust and purify,
filling our lives with experience and fulfillment but never succumbing to
the shadows that lurk within our thoughts.
“But like all journeys, the Path is different for each of us. Some
wander for a long while in one place; some spread their travels wide and
visit many places for a short time while others remain for a long time to
explore every nook and turn; some of us lose our way and leave the Path for
a time or forever; and some of us find dead-ends and become trapped.”
—Kysaduras the Anchorite,
foreword to
Introspections upon Perfection

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